Andy Meerow – 100%
September 4th – September 16th, 2024
Reception: September 4th, 6 – 9 pm
No Gallery – 105 Henry St. #4 NYC NY 10002
Andy Meerow’s artworks interrogate tensions between legibility and abstraction, originality and derivation, elegance and crudeness. He works primarily with found texts and images, often pointing to the ways fine art vocabularies are repurposed by everyday commerce, and vice versa, resulting in a critical yet humorous flattening of high and low content. Multi-panel paintings, with their inherent fragmentation of the picture plane, are a primary device for describing these tensions. The juxtaposition of one panel with another implies modularity and enacts a conflict. Through this frequent reorientation and reshuffling, Meerow undercuts his own intentionality and destabilizes meaning. Instead, he opts for an openness which calls to mind the urban landscape, that unreliable muse which suspends us among codified messages abundant beyond navigation.
Andy Meerow (b. 1980, Park Ridge, NJ) lives and works in New York City. Meerow received his BA from Wesleyan University and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Derosia, New York; Bodega (Derosia), New York (with Rose Marcus); KAJE, Brooklyn (with Rose Marcus); And Now, Dallas; Levy Delval, Brussels; and Essex Flowers, New York. Group exhibitions include Bel Ami, Los Angeles; As It Stands, Los Angeles; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris; Ramiken, New York; and Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.
